Share market update: OMCs trade in the green; BPCL rises nearly 3%

NEW DELHI: Most OMCs were in the green in Tuesday's afternoon session with its sectoral index on BSE trading higher.

Shares of Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 2.70 per cent), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (up 1.98 per cent), GAIL (India) (up 1.97 per cent) and Indian Oil Corporation (up 1.92 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 1.79 per cent), Oil India (up 1.78 per cent), Reliance Industries (up 0.98 per cent) and Castrol India (up 0.94 per cent) too were trading higher.

The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 1.51 per cent up at 13,233.63 around 12:35 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 40.55 points at 10,681.50 while the BSE Sensex was up 146.51 points at 35,644.95.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 33 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.

Shares of Reliance Communications, Reliance Power, JP Associates, CG Power, YES Bank, Dish TV India, Adani Power, Suzlon Energy, GMR Infra and Ashok Leyland were among the most traded shares on the NSE.